Intern, AI Data Developer

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada. The 2027 Canada internship runs for 16 weeks from January 4 to April 23, 2027. The role may require in-person onboarding and/or identity verification.

Company

hirify.global develops software for designing and making buildings, machines, factories, cars, and films.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for large-scale telemetry and operational data.
• Engineer features and evaluate scoring, classification, and ranking models against benchmark datasets.
• Build data models, schemas, and versioned datasets for engineering and analytics users.
• Monitor data and model accuracy, drift, reliability, and regressions through validation and alerting.
• Analyze shared platforms, identify architecture and separation-of-concerns gaps, and prototype end-to-end extensions or integrations.
• Document architectures, data contracts, benchmarks, and technical recommendations for engineering and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a full-time undergraduate program in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field, with expected graduation in April 2027 or later.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, including pandas, Scikit-learn, or PySpark.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT design, data validation, schema design, dataset versioning, machine learning workflows, precision/recall, and experimental design.
• Experience with Git, cloud environments such as AWS or Azure, and distributed data processing such as Spark.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants such as Cursor, Claude Code, or GitHub Copilot for development, debugging, refactoring, or analysis.
• Comfort working on ambiguous, outcome-based problems and explaining AI-assisted technical decisions to stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with PySpark, Spark SQL, Airflow, dbt, data warehousing, anomaly detection, or feature engineering.
• Familiarity with GenAI or LLM-powered platforms, RAG-based tools, multi-tenant architecture, and separation-of-concerns design.
• Experience reverse-engineering system outputs, producing architecture documentation, or working in compliance, licensing, fraud, or risk detection.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid 16-week internship with mentorship from industry leaders.
• Participation in technical talks and professional development activities.
• Hands-on work on production-grade pipelines and models supporting business decisions.
• hirify.global’s Flexible Workplace approach supports office, remote, and hybrid work preferences, subject to business needs.
• Opportunity to build a portfolio of benchmarked models, measurable outcomes, and reusable technical documentation.